Door-fastening means.



E: J. SHUR DOOR FASTENING APPLICATION FILED ran. 21. 1917 MEANS,

Patented. Oct. 16,1917.

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EDWARD JISI-IUR, OF NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA.

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Application filed February 2'7, 1917.

To all whom it may concave:

Be it known that I, EDWARD J. SHUR, a citizen of the United States,residing at New Orleans, in the parish of Orleans and State ofLouisiana, have invented new and useful Improvements in Door FasteningMeans, of which. the following is a specification.

My present invention pertains to door fastenings and moreparticula-rlyto fastening devices for refrigerator car doors.

It has for its object to provide a fastening construction designed witha view to taking up the slack in refrigerator car doors, due toshrinkage, swelling, insufficient padding or excessive padding, andrendering the doors air tight, without the necessity of pounding thedoors together, and the use of a crow bar or other implement to pry thedoors open when it is desired to gain access to the interior of the car.

The invention also contemplates the use of an auxiliary fastening deviceat the bottom of the inner door for holding the same in tightly closedposition precedent to the closing of the outer door.

Other advantageous features of the invention will be fully understoodfrom the following description and claim when the same are read inconnection with the drawings, accompanying and forming part of thisspecification, in which:

Figure 1 is a face view illustrating a por tion of a refrigerator carequipped with my novel door and door fastening means.

Fig. 2 is a vertical section, taken on the line 22 of Fig. 1, withportions broken away.

Similar numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all viewsof the drawings.

The door frame 1 is provided with padding 2, and the inner door isprovided on its free edge with padding 8 designed to be opposed tosimilar padding on the free edge of the outer door. The inner door isnumbered 4 and the outer door 5, and the padding on the latter isnumbered 6.

A keeper 7 is fixed to the car body below the door opening, and theinner door 4 is provided with an auxiliary fastening lever 8 which isdesigned to work against a wear plate 9 and into and out of the keeper7, said lever being designed to the end that the door 4 may be tightlyfastened precedent to the closing of the outer door 5.

Specification of Letters Patent.

the door.

Patented 0st. 16, 1917.

Serial No. 151,288.

Fixed to'the car body above and below the dooropening are housings 10which are equipped with anti-frictionrollers 11 and aredesigned to serve'as keepers in themann'er hereinafter described.

Carried on the face of the door 5 is a bar 12 which is fixed in suitablemanner to The said bar 12 describes a portion of a circle and isprovided at intervals in its length with apertures 13 for the receptionof an inwardly directed stud 1 1 on a hand lever 15 that is pivoted at16 to a lug on a disk-like turning body 17, and is provided at 18 with aslot to receive an apertured lug 19 on the body 17. The said hand lever15 is also provided with a fastening hook 20 which when the stud 14 isin one of the apertures 13 of bar 12 is designed to be seated in theaperture of lug 19 with a View to fastening the hand lever. It will alsobe understood that when the hook 20 is removed from the lug 19, the handlever 15 may be swung toward the left on the lug 16 until it rests in aposition diametrically opposite that shown by full lines in Fig. 1 sothat it can be used as a lever in powerfully turning the body 17.

Pivotally connected at opposite points to the body 17 and suitablyguided on the face of the outer door 5 are upper and lower fasteningbars 21; the upper bar being provided at its upper end with a taperedhead 22, and the lower bar being similarly equipped at its lower end.The said tapered or wedge-like heads 22 are designed when the bars arethrust upwardly and downwardly, respectively, to enter the housings 10and cotiperate with the rollers 11 or other suitable abutments in thehousings or on the car body, and thereby crowd the door 5 in a powerfulmanner into its fully closed position.

After the door 5 is closed as stated, the hand lever 15 is restored toand secured in the position shown by full lines in Fig. 1, when bothdoors will be strongly fastened in closed position without liability ofcasual release.

To unfasten the door 5, the operation described is reversed, and afterthe bars 21 have been disengaged from their keepers on the car body, thehand lever 15 may manifestly be used as a convenient handle with whichto pull the door 5 open.

It will be gathered from the foregoing that notwithstanding its capacityof function as set forth, my improved construction is simple andinexpensive, and is Well adapted to Withstand the rough usage to Whichcar appurtenances are ordinarily subjected.

Having described my invention, What I claim and desire to secure byLetters Patent, is:

The combination of a structure having a door opening, keepers carried onthe structure at opposite sides of said opening, a turning body mountedon a door hinged to the structure and having lugs at opposite points,one of said lugs being apertured, the said door,- a bar fixed to theface of the door and describing a part of a circle and having aperturesat intervals of its length, fastener bars connected with theturning-body at opposite points and adapted to cooperate With thekeepers, and a hand lever pivoted 30 adapted to enter the apertures ofthe bar 25 that describes part of a circle.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

EDWARD J. SHUR.

Witnesses:

WM. BEATTIE, 7M. P. LUCK.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents; Washington, D. G.

